CVE-2016-2194

Publication date 13 May 2016

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

The ressol function in Botan before 1.10.11 and 1.11.x before 1.11.27 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via unspecified input to the OS2ECP function, related to a composite modulus.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
botan1.10	17.04 zesty	Not affected
	16.10 yakkety	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	15.10 wily	Ignored end of life
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 1.10.5-1+deb7u1ubuntu0.14.04.1
	12.04 LTS precise	Ignored end of life

Notes

seth-arnold

"Introduced in 1.7.15, fixed in 1.11.27 and 1.10.11"

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.5 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H